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15 minutes before the beginning of the Yom Kippur fast, David, son of Moshe Feiglin, woke up from a 3-month coma after a car accident. “When something like this happens to a man, he examines his deeds,” says the Likud’s bad boy to Yediot Acharonot.

A blow to the Hamas military wing: Arab media is reporting that Muhammad Dababash, one of the terrorist organizations top officials, has been arrested in Cairo. Dababash is a party to many Hamas secrets, including weapons smuggling into Gaza, the shooting of rockets at Eilat and Aqaba, and assassination of Fatah officials. Hamas is concerned about the ramifications of the arrest.

Atmosphere of optimism with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s return from the summit with Mahmoud Abbas in Washington? Not so fast. Israel intends to cancel the first meeting between the heads of the respective negotiating teams that was supposed to take place tomorrow, after the Palestinian side leaked word of the talks to the media.

As head negotiator for the Arabs of Judea and Samaria, Saeb Erekat is rarely seen by the media unless either a suicide bomb goes off and the media needs a soundbite from the Arab side, or negotiations are actually going on between Israel and the Arabs. That being so, Erekat has not been seen much lately these last few years at all, as negotiations have been few and far between, as have been the bombings.

Hamas’s homepage has undergone a makeover: The new page has an entrance sign to a Jewish town with a question mark over it. Hamas spokesmen have already announced that the deadly terrorist attack near Hebron is only of many to come.

The dead: Yitzchak (47) and Tali (45) Aimes, mother and father of 6; Avishai Schindler (25); and Kochava Ibn Chaim (37), whose husband Mumi of the Zaka volunteer force, came to the area to help clean up the scene of the murders. Hamas: “We claim responsibility.” Judea and Samaria Council : “The building freeze is over.”

While Iran plans to publish their own list of Israeli companies and companies linked to Israel for the world to boycott, the United States Department of Defense seems to be going the other direction. According to Iranian Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammed-Rez Mir-Tajeddini, Israel “runs a global economic cartel that is constantly establishing new companies under new brands.”

In his weekly address this past weekend, former Chief Rabbi and Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yosef said, “May our enemies and those who hate us be gone from this world. May the Holy One Blessed Be He strike them down with plague, them and those Palestinians, evil ones and enemies of Israel.”

Enormous damage was inflicted on the production of the film “Valley of Wolves: Palestine,” a film based on the Gaza Flotilla affair, during a mishandling of chemicals that burned two days worth of work.